Comment by kragen
12 days ago
Strobing the backlight seems like it would allow you to not illuminate the new frame of video until the liquid crystals have finished rotating, so you only have to contend with the persistence of vision on your retina instead of additionally the persistence of the liquid crystals.
My "for some strange reason" was the wrong choice of words. I don't wish to imply that I disapprove of the reason that gaming monitors do it, just that I haven't done the work to try to understand.
Yeah, I'm kind of speculating here myself.